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I finished my MA dissertation this week.
Unfortunately to do so, I have been on a restricted reading schedule this month - I haven't finished a single book!! 😲😭

I'm looking forward to recyifying that with @Andrew65 's #20in4 readathon! My goals? READ. That is all.

Super fun graphic novel. Witty. Feminist. Byron is there?

This started to get old after a while -- it's very “it's funny because it's random and quirky!“ So it was enjoyable to start with and then I started guessing what ~quirky~ thing would come next, which felt sort of cynical. Mostly fun though -- just wouldn't have wanted it to be anyyyy longer.

...psychic eagle Napoleon, okay. This is either going to be good or really bad.

This was a fun read full of adventure, cartoonish violence, friendship, romance, and gender exploration. Both Lucy and Lord Byron crossdress at various points for ~subterfuge purposes~, and Sham appears to be nonbinary. It did bum me out that all the characters call Sham “she“ or “he.“ It's not like Sham ever requests certain pronouns, and I know people weren't using “they“ or “ze“ in the 1800s, but they also weren't hunting vampires, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I absolutely adored this. I can't decide if it was high or low brow humor and that is 100% ok with me.

I have so far only read the prologue and I am CACKLING. This is a good one, folks.

Sometimes I purchase a book to show support and gratitude towards an author, even if I'm not sure the book is really for me. I've enjoyed McGovern's webcomic (My Life as a Background Slytherin - SO funny) for years - for free - so I felt it was only right to purchase her first book, a graphic novel about Regency-era vampire hunters! As I suspected, it was an entertaining one-time read for me, but not a classic I will revisit time and again.

I enjoyed this-- not nearly as much as My Life as a Background Slytherin (McGovern's webcomic), but still a fun read overall. Lucy, Sham, and Lord Byron (yes that Byron) team up to track down a vampire. Except Lucy doesn't want to track her down so much as be turned by her. And she's definitely not the only one keeping secrets. The story felt a bit rambling at times, but the humor was very dry and I enjoy some good Regency vampire humor.

The creator of My Life as a Background Slytherin is coming out with a full length graphic novel that sounds pretty awesome